mainframe
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“When we look at that sort of financial backbone, 70% by value of all transactions flow through the mainframe on a daily basis,” says Krishna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
But neither is the mainframe business and its associated software doomed, given that it remains competitive in certain markets, he argued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
When delivering its profit warning last week, IBM pointed to recent challenges in its mainframe business.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Krishna said the launch of the company’s z17 mainframe and the associated software stack in the second quarter ended up being “worse than our expectations” for infrastructure revenue to fall in the low-single-digit range.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
A few seconds after my eargear was attached and activated, I began to hear the placid monotone of the HR mainframe, droning instructions and other information.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
While other tech giants spend on AI data centers, Big Blue aims to keep selling mainframes and pour profits into quantum computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He essentially bet that corporate clients running critical programs on their own mainframes purchased from IBM couldn’t or wouldn’t migrate to remote data centers offered by Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
IBM has reinvented itself many times, transitioning from tabulators and time clocks in its earliest days to personal computers, mainframes and supercomputers and later AI and hybrid cloud computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
However, Morningstar’s Yang explained that mainframes fall into a different class of hardware and process different workloads than hyperscaler servers do, for instance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Computers up to that point had been the massive, expensive mainframes of the sort sitting in the white expanse of the Michigan Computer Center.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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